Editing Tefnut (section)

==Cult centres==
Heliopolis and [[Leontopolis]] (now ell el-Muqdam) were the primary cult centres. At Heliopolis, Tefnut was one of the members of that city's great Ennead,<ref name=Wilkinson /> and is referred to in relation to the purification of the ''wabet ''(priest) as part of the temple rite. Here she had a sanctuary called the Lower Menset.<ref name="Hart 156"/>

{{blockquote|I have ascended to you<br />
with the Great One behind me<br />
and [my] purity before me:<br />
I have passed by Tefnut,<br />
even while Tefnut was purifying me,<br />
and indeed I am a priest, the son of a priest in this temple."|Papyrus Berlin 3055<ref>{{cite journal|last=Hays|first=H.M|title=Between Identity and Agency in Ancient Egyptian Ritual|year=2009|pages=15–30|hdl=1887/15716|editor1-last=Nyord R, Kyolby A|publisher=[[Archaeopress]]|location=Leiden University Repository|quote=Rite 25 from Moret, Le Rituel de Cult, Paris 1902}}</ref>}}

At [[Karnak]], Tefnut formed part of the [[Ennead]] and was invoked in prayers for the health and wellbeing of the pharaoh.<ref name="Meeks">{{cite book|last=Meeks|first=Dimitri|author2=Christine Favard-Meeks |title=Daily Life of the Egyptian Gods|publisher=Pimlico|year=1999|pages=128|isbn=0-7126-6515-3|language=en}}</ref>

She was worshiped with Shu as a pair of lions in Leontopolis in the [[Nile Delta]].<ref name="Hart 156"/>